Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: politics

In politics nothing is contemptible.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

There is no gambling like politics.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

To think that the heritage of the West, including post-war liberalism, was a selfish, secular, practical arrangement of politics is a fiction.

Members of the Supreme Court have lifetime tenures because they're not supposed to do politics.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

'Coriolanus' deals with the birth of democracy. And that has been fascinating because I've been talking about politics so much because of 'Borgen.' It's a nice bridge.

I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.

I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.

Misogyny is at the reptilian brain stem of a lot of right-wing politics.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

As new technologies upend the economics of climate change, the politics surrounding the environment are changing, too.

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

People in the tech community may not like politics because it seems less interesting or less pure than what they're doing. But you see the result of not caring about politics. This is no longer an abstract problem.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

I always say I was a liberal, but I wasn't active in politics. I just assumed I was a liberal because I was black and I was a woman. And I know now that sounds really foolish, but I had different priorities.

I don't know a lot about politics.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and partisanship before progress and results.

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

Politics has always been personal for me. You know, growing up, I was in a very politically conscious household. We engaged with intellectuals and artists and academics from around the world who were thinking critically about politics and the intersection of politics and public life.

Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.